PinkMonkey.com Digital Library - A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

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“Here, sir! It’s a fight to get back again. Here I am, sir!” Mr. Lorry
handed him a paper through the throng. “Quick! Have you got it?”
“Yes, sir.” Hastily written on the paper was the word
“AQUITTED.” “If you had sent the message, ‘Recalled to Life,’
again,” muttered Jerry, as he turned, “I should have known what
you meant, this time.” He had no opportunity of saying, or so
much as thinking, anything else, until he was clear of the Old
Bailey; for, the crowd came pouring out with a vehemence that
nearly took him off his legs, and a loud buzz swept into the street
as if the baffled blue-flies were dispersing in search of other
carrion.